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(No Model) J. DRISOOLL. SHOE STRING PASTENER.

No. 408,167. Patented July 30, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEREMIAH DRISCOLL, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND RICHARD CAFFREY, M. F. FITZ GIBBONS, AND IVILLIAM DRISCOLL, OF SAME PLACE.

SHOE-STRING FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,167, dated July 30, 1889.

Application filed March 5, 1889. Serial No. 301,835. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JEREMIAH DRISCOLL, of Taunton, in the county of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Shoe-String Fasteners, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an elevation showing my improvement in use; Fig. 2, a sectional View, the fastener being shown in side elevation; Figs. 3 and 4, perspective views of the fasteners detached.

Like letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates to a device for securing the ends of shoe-lacings after the shoe has been laced; and it consists in certain novel features, as hereinafter fully set forth and claimed, the object being to produce a simpler, cheaper, and more effective device of this character than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement .will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation:

In the drawings, A B represent the fasteners considered as wholes, C the shoe, and D E the lacings. The fasteners are formed in rights and lefts, (represented in Figs. 3 and 4, respectively,) and consist of a single piece of wire bent upon itself to form vertical U-shaped loops d f in the same horizontal plane and opening outward in diametricallyopposite directions.

The central portion 9 of the wire connecting the loops at their inner ends is arranged horizontally at right angles to the body of said loops. The ends h i of the wire extend vertically downward from the inner ends of the loops and are pointed to enable them to be readily inserted in the leather.

In the use of my improvement the right and left fasteners A B are secured to the corresponding flap of the shoe by means of the ends h 2', which are forced through the leather and bent or clinched on the under side thereof, as shown in Fig. 2. The fasteners are disposed at the upper corners of the shoe-flap, near the upper eyelet or stud 7r, with their loops f'pointing inward toward the edge of said flaps. The laeings D E are threaded in the eyelets m and around the studs 7; in the usual manner, the ends of said lacings being respectively crossed at p and passed into the loop d across the middle piece g and into the loop f of the fasteners, whereby they are socured and prevented from becoming loosened in the eyelets in a manner which will be readily understood without a more explicit description.

Having thus explained my inventiomwhat I claim is A shoestring fastener constructed of a single piece of wire bent to form vertical U-shaped loops (1 f, opening in diametricallyopposite directions, said loops being connected at their inner ends by a middle piece g and respectively provided with a downwardly projecting attaching-prong IL 11, substantially as described.

JEREMIAH DRISCOLL.

Vitnesses:

MICHAEL FRANCIS FITZ GIBBoNs. RICHARD CAFFREY. 

